Hire and pay employees in
Mauritius, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Mauritius. No more worrying about local laws, complex tax systems, or managing international payroll. Deel takes care of everything in 150+ countries.
The average onboarding time frame in Mauritius is 3 days with Deel.
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Devise
Mauritian Rupee - MUR

Capitale
Port Louis
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Langue officielle
English & French
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Cycle de paie
Mensuel
Onboard, pay and manage employees in Mauritius with Deel.
Usually, to hire in Mauritius, your business needs an entity. That means a local office, an address registered as a subsidiary, and an account with a local bank. All of this, plus navigating regional benefits, payroll, tax, and HR laws, can take months.
Deel lets you hire employees in Mauritius quickly, easily, and compliantly. We even automate tax document collection, payroll, benefits, and more. For your existing direct employees, we can manage your entire payroll operation from end-to-end.
All the necessary benefits for Mauritius
built right in
Deel allows you to provide localized benefits for employees in Mauritius within minutes. All in one manageable online dashboard.
- Gratuity Fund
- National Saving Fund
- Sécurité sociale
- Training Levy
- Couverture santé privée - Allianz (facultatif)
- Optional global health insurance - Allianz
Our quickstart guide to hiring in Mauritius
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Exigences relatives au salaire minimum
Impôt sur le revenu des particuliers
Coût de la paie
The employer cost is generally estimated at 14.5% of the employee salary.
- Social Security - (CSG) - 6%*
- Training Levy - 1.5%
- Portable Retirement Gratuity Fund (PRGF) - 4.5%**
- National Savings Fund 2.5%, up to MUR 608 per month
*Capped at a maximum salary of MUR MUR 50,001
**Capped at a maximum salary of MUR 200,000
Annual costs
13th Salary - 1 month's basic salary
Ces coûts sont des estimations et ne sont indiqués qu’à titre d’information. Pour comprendre le mode de calcul des coûts et frais inhérents aux termes d’un contrat de travail établi dans ce pays, n’hésitez pas à demander un devis à notre service commercial.
Rémunération des heures supplémentaires et nombre d’heures maximum
Standard working hours are 9 hours per day, 45 hours per week, excluding lunch breaks. The standard workweek is from Monday to Friday.
Overtime payment is mandatory and may be included in the salary for managerial or supervisory positions. Hours outside of standard work hours are considered overtime. For additional hours, employees are paid:
- 150% of the hourly rate for each hour worked.
- 200% of the hourly rate on Sundays and public holidays.
Congé maternité
Congé paternité
Employees who have worked for 12 consecutive months are entitled to 5 days of paid paternity leave. The employee will receive 100% of the salary during this period, and the employer will be responsible for this pay.
Congé parental
Congés maladie
Conditions de départ
Un licenciement doit respecter des règles complexes et la procédure officielle du pays où travaille la personne concernée. Les conditions du départ sont toujours gérées par l’employeur avec les principales parties prenantes. La procédure peut inclure des frais ponctuels et certaines mesures (obligatoires ou recommandées) dans des cas spécifiques de licenciement.
Terminations in Mauritius can be complex. There is no at-will termination in Mauritius for employers and termination must be done for just cause.
Pour être conforme, la rupture d’un contrat de travail doit être motivée par :
- Du fait de l’employé
- D’un commun accord
- Unilaterally by the employer based on:
- Période d’essai
- Raisons objectives
- Disciplinary dismissal
- À l’expiration du contrat
Période de préavis
Indemnités de départ des employés
In Mauritius, all employees who are terminated due to unfair dismissal are entitled to severance pay. Severance pay is decided upon in a disciplinary committee meeting and is the sum will depend of the length of service
Pour vous prémunir des risques financiers imprévus liés à un licenciement, Deel prévoit un cumul d’indemnités de départ dans tous les contrats de travail pour ce pays. Deel possède une grande expérience de la gestion des risques de litige à l’international, et nous calculons le cumul d’indemnités de départ en fonction du droit commun ou des dispositions légales et des meilleures pratiques locales. Si votre employé démissionne ou n’a pas droit à une indemnité de départ, les montants réservés en vertu du contrat et inutilisés vous sont remboursés.
Congés payés
Full-time employees are entitled to 22 working days of paid time off (PTO) a year. PTO accrues monthly at 1.84 days per month. Employees are eligible for full annual leave after 12 months of work. However, if the employee has no absence (including sick leave) in the first six months of employment, the employee is entitled to 1 day of PTO per month from months 7-12.
Part-time employees are entitled to the number of days a week worked divided by the number of days of the working week (5) times the number of days leave for a full-time employee (22).
Jours fériés
Mauritius celebrates 14 national holidays.
Mauritius celebrates 14 national holidays. National public holidays include:
- New Year Holiday (2 days)
- Thaipoosam Cavadee
- Abolition of Slavery
- Chinese Spring Festival
- Maha Shivaratree
- Independence and Republic Day
- Ugaadi
- Fête du Travail
- Eid Ul Fitr
- Assomption de la Vierge Marie
- Ganesh Chaturthi
- Arrival of Indentured Labourers
- Divali
- Noël
Onboarding
Termes du contrat de travail
Les contrats doivent être en anglais ou en français et peuvent être bilingues. Ils doivent être écrits et signés par les deux parties.
Un contrat doit préciser :
- Nom
- Date de début
- Durée de l’emploi
- Description du poste
- Conditions de rupture de contrat
Période d’essai
Hiring in Mauritius, hassle-free
With Deel, your business can easily hire employees in Mauritius with our EOR solution. If you have an entity, our Global Payroll solution takes care of payroll and compliance for your direct employees. Our 250+ in-house experts handle everything from managing local laws, complex tax systems, or your payroll in Mauritius and 150+ countries.
À partir de 599 USD
Management fee
14.5%
Part employeur estimée
* du salaire versé
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